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Bermuda’s public education system has failed for decades to equip schoolchildren with the skills to qualify them for top jobs, economists have claimed. Peter Everson and Robert Stewart said the problem went back through at least six governments. Mr E...

David Burt, as Leader of the Opposition in 2016, referred to Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities to present a parallel to his “A Tale of Two Bermudas” in his Reply to the Throne Speech. He said: “While one Bermuda enjoys wealth, privilege and secu...

Dellwood Middle School pupils are expected back at their desks this morning after teachers took industrial action yesterday, when two long-term substitute teachers had their positions discontinued more than a month early. Parents were summoned to Del...

A Warwick Academy “teaching legend” who has died aged 83 took up the profession only after he missed out on a career in the British Secret Service, his family has revealed. Gabriel Rodriguez was approached by the Secret Service after he started at Ca...

Successful entrepreneurship is the key to boosting Bermuda’s finances, an economist has claimed. Craig Simmons said that businesspeople were the drivers of economic growth and that they took on risk like “heroes”. The senior economics lecturer at Ber...

The future of a mould-plagued middle school closed last year will be revealed tomorrow. Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, will meet staff from TN Tatem Middle School, in Warwick, at a meeting at CedarBridge Academy to announce his decision. ...

More than 30 soldiers yesterday began two weeks of intensive training at the start of their careers as Royal Bermuda Regiment soldiers. The island trainees were joined by five officer cadets from the new Cayman Regiment, who are in Bermuda to learn a...

More young people have a chance to enrol in a study course in the United States. A limited number of positions have been made available for Bermuda students to attend the Global Young Leaders Programme in Atlanta this summer — a three-week course des...

Principals have been warned to be vigilant because of concerns over the Jump Tripping Challenge internet prank. Kalmar Richards, the Commissioner of Education, said she was alarmed that the stunt appeared to be gaining popularity and that she did not...

A Bill promoting Bermuda as a “landing hub for transatlantic submarine cables” carrying internet and telecommunications has won approval from both parties in the House of Assembly. Walter Roban, the Deputy Premier, said on Friday that the “one-stop s...